The lieutenant charged in the case, who worked on the initial stages of the inquiry when she was in Internal Affairs, has been indicted on misdemeanor charges that she leaked wiretap information, several people said.
At the time of that interview, the only way to hear the album was to listen to it on her personal iPhone — with headphones, because she feared wiretaps.
At one point, watering a plant in a D.N.C. office that she suspects may be harboring a wiretap, she begins speaking to it in Russian.
In the Bunga Bunga trial, Ruby testified she had not had sex with the tycoon, claiming she had lied on a wiretap in which she was heard telling friends she had.
Sibel Edmonds said she was fired from her job as a wiretap translator because she told superiors she suspected that a co-worker was leaking information to targets of an ongoing FBI investigation.
With Mr. Pellicano staring intently in her direction, Ms. Carradine explained that although she didn't know that Mr. Pellicano was wiretapping, she came "to learn that he was wiretapping".
She agreed to the wiretap as part of a deal to get leniency.
"I thought it meant they'd cut the wiretap cables," she said crisply, again avoiding eye contract with Mr. Pellicano.
In a separate development, another grand jury has received evidence that one of Starr's chief witnesses, Linda R. Tripp, may have known she was violating Maryland wiretapping laws when she secretly recorded conversations with Lewinsky talking about her affair with the president.
In November, a federal district judge in Virginia told the government that if it did not allow lawyers for an Islamic scholar sentenced to life in prison for inciting followers to commit acts of terrorism to review classified material on possible wiretapping, she might order a new trial.
